Squads

Apply shared AI Gateway settings and spending limits to subsets of your engineering team.

Squads are a hosted-only feature available on AI Gateway paid plans. ☁️

Squads let you divide your organization into sub-groups and apply a distinct set of AI Gateway settings to each group: compression configuration, model routing, BYOK provider keys, and a spending limit. Every member of a squad inherits the squad’s settings, while remaining subject to any organization-level overrides.

How settings resolve

Settings follow a three-tier hierarchy:

1. Organization — enforced globally; overrides everything below it when set.
2. Squad — applies to all members of the squad; overrides individual key defaults.
3. API key — per-key overrides, within whatever the squad and org allow.

If a field is unset at the squad level, the organization default applies. If it’s unset at the key level, the squad value applies.

Creating a squad

Go to Team → Squads in the console sidebar. Click Create Squad.

1. Name and describe the squad

   Enter a name (required, max 100 characters, unique within the organization) and an optional description (max 500 characters). Pick a name that reflects the team’s function — backend, mobile, infra, and so on.

2. Select members

   Choose from the list of organization members. Only members who hold an AI Gateway seat are eligible. A member can belong to at most one squad — members already assigned to another squad appear greyed out in the selector.

3. Create

   Click Create. The squad appears as a card in the Squads grid. Settings default to the organization values; adjust them in the squad detail sheet.

Squad settings

Open a squad card to see two tabs: Members and Settings.

Members tab

Add or remove members at any time. Removing a member from a squad does not revoke their AI Gateway seat — it returns them to org-level defaults.

Settings tab

Compression

Each compression strategy can be toggled independently per squad:

Strategy	What it does	Default
Tool Result Trimming	Strips boilerplate from CLI and tool outputs before they reach the model	Inherits from org
Tool Surface Reduction	Narrows the tools list sent to the model to task-relevant entries ⚠️ alpha	Inherits from org
Output Brevity	Reduces model response verbosity without dropping technical content	Inherits from org

When the organization enforces a setting (e.g. tool_result_trimming = true org-wide), the squad-level toggle is locked and shows the org value.

See Token Compression for a full description of each strategy.

Model routing

Configure fallbacks (alternate models when the primary is unavailable) and reroutes (redirect all traffic to a different model) for squad members. These override the organization routing defaults for the squad.

See Retry & Fallback for routing details.

BYOK

Assign one or more provider keys to the squad. Requests from squad members are billed to those keys. Enable BYOK only to prevent squad members from using Edgee credits entirely — all requests must go through a registered provider key.

Spending limit

Set a cap on how much the squad can spend. Configure:

• Max spend: a dollar amount (0 = unlimited).
• Period: daily, monthly, or all time.

When the limit is reached, requests from squad members are blocked until the period resets. The squad card in the Squads grid shows a progress bar so you can see how close a squad is to its limit at a glance.

Spending limits at the squad level are additive to any key-level limits. A request is blocked if either the key limit or the squad limit is exhausted.

Squads grid

The Squads tab shows one card per squad with:

• Member count
• Tokens, requests, cost, and savings for the selected period
• Spending limit progress bar (if a limit is set)

The time range selector at the top of the page applies to all squad cards simultaneously.

Permissions

Action	Required role
View squads and settings	Any organization member
Create, update, or delete a squad	Admin
Add or remove members	Admin
Update squad settings	Admin

Next steps

Token Compression

Learn about the three compression strategies and how they reduce token costs.

Alerts & Budgets

Set alerts at the squad level to get notified before spending limits are reached.

BYOK

Register provider keys to route squad traffic through your own billing accounts.

Retry & Fallback

Configure per-squad model routing and automatic failover.